'A feminine touch' : design, gender and the ocean liner
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 2
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/21533369.2015.1095534
- Title of journal
- Journal for Maritime Research
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- First page
- 169
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 2153-3369
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This journal article offers an interdisciplinary account of gender in relation to the history of ocean liner interior design.
The article builds on Anne Massey’s AHRC (Grant 112087) and HEFCE Early Career Research funded work on the history of ocean liner design. Her book, Designing Liners: Interior Design Afloat was published by Routledge in 2006. The subject had never been tackled by a design historian before, and the book has become a standard reference work. On the strength of the research, she attracted funding for two AHRC CDA students with the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. This also led to an invitation to contribute to a research seminar at the Museum about ‘Gender and the Maritime World’ in 2015. She was invited to submit her paper as this article in a special issue of the Journal of Maritime Research. The article outlines a case study of what the discipline of design history can bring to gender and maritime history. A historiography of the subject is followed by an analysis of the ways in which the spaces on board British ocean liners were conceived of, designed and used in terms of gender. The article considered the role of women designers within the patriarchal world of ship design and construction. The article was based on primary research in the Cunard and P & O Archives, held at the University of Liverpool and the National Maritime Museum. The article bridged the gap between design history, gender and maritime history and added to debates around gender and maritime history .Massey’s work was cited in the exhibition catalogue, Speed & Style, held at the V & A in 2018, and she was also invited to speak at the V&A exhibition conference.
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- Non-English
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